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Austin, Texas

• Responsible for planning and delivery of the Legacy Systems program within the Texas Department of Transportation’s signature transformation project TxDOTCONNECT.
• Liaising with the Client & Product Owners to track project delivery, monitor and address risks and dependencies, status reporting and project deliverables, managing Legacy scrum teams in a Scaled Agile Environment.
• Leading business analysts, technical teams (Natural/ADABAS mainframe, Java, Mulesoft ESB, ArcGIS & Informatica developers & solution architects), server engineering and testing teams to ensure successful development.
• Responsible for planning of Infrastructure topologies, release and deployment planning.
• Established Onboarding plans, Service Transition plans and Support Plans, setup operational procedures.

Singapore

• Responsible for the planning, execution and delivery of various Projects (client management systems, placement systems, policy generation, claims submission and fiduciary systems) in.Net/SharePoint/Java for Marsh Asia.
• Setup the project standards and best practices for Marsh APAC’s MEAN stack project, aligning offshore vendor and internal IT groups on delivery and coaching relevant business groups on SCRUM practices, facilitating.
• Managed multiple work streams geographically dispersed across APAC, UK and US, collaborating with cross-functional teams including internal & external business users, internal IT teams and vendors.
• Managed offshore vendor(s) for solution delivery with emphasis on quality, scoping of Change Requests.
• Worked with Shared Services and Engineering teams for procurement and provisioning of various IT Systems.
• Worked with Operations leadership to increase user-adoption of the various systems across APAC, by working on change management initiatives, establishing SLAs, metrics and reporting processes.

Singapore

• Responsible for the planning, execution and delivery of the JLL Portal Transformation Project while driving user-adoption of Office 365 products like Delve and Yammer.
• Managed stakeholders and business users from the various core service lines of JLL to transform their portal sites using SCRUM methodology.
• Elicited functional requirements, requirements prioritization with stakeholders, wire-frames and prototypes creation, created functional user-guides, user-targeted training materials and conducted training sessions.

Singapore

• Responsible for the planning, execution and delivery of the multi-phased, multi-year project of migrating numerous Domino Applications, Domino.Doc Document Management System, Quicker Sites, Endeca Enterprise Search.
• Responsible for the Architecture, Technology selection decisions, enhancement/as-is migration decisions, managing the project scope and schedule of the migration project.
• Coordinated the project with other internal IT groups, vendor, business units, Internal Communications and end-users, while providing guidance to the development team with hands-on technical involvement.
• Elicited functional requirements through interviews with key stakeholders, prioritized requirements, analyzed existing systems for gap-analysis, created and demoed prototypes.

Silver Spring, USA

• Responsible for the full SDLC-life cycle of enterprise applications, including integration with both internal and external applications.
• Worked as an architect, business analyst, application developer, tester and project manager with varying roles and responsibilities on various applications.
• Developed and architected applications, best practices and development standards.
• Managed stakeholders, conducted user workshops, elicited requirements, handled change management and user signoff.
• Responsible for requirements management, developed project schedule and resource allocation plans.
• Conducted show-cases, demoed mock-ups, prototypes, conducted user-testing and user-training sessions, created training materials.

Master'S Degree, Information Systems

Be, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science